Texas 5, Houston 4
When: 2:05 PM ET, Sunday, June 20, 2010
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jim Joyce, 1B -
Jim Wolf, 2B -
Derryl Cousins, 3B -
Marvin Hudson
Attendance:
33753
By SportsDirect Inc.
The Texas Rangers completed their best road trip in franchise history in dramatic fashion.
The Rangers rallied from a three-run deficit, and pulled out a 5-4 victory in extra innings over the Houston Astros on Sunday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep and win their eighth straight on a nine-game road trip.
The game was tied 4-4 in the 10th when Rangers outfielder Julio Borbon led off with a single. Astros reliever Casey Daigle retired the next two batters and then intentionally walked Vladimir Guerrero to get to Josh Hamilton. Houston wanted a lefty-lefty matchup and brought in reliever Gustavo Chacin to face Hamilton.
The move was questionable because at that point Guerrero was 0-for-5 with two strikeouts and Hamilton was 4-for-5.
Hamilton made the Astros pay, as he singled to right to bring in the go-ahead run for the Rangers. He also came through in the ninth with the game-tying RBI single to make the score 4-4 and force extra innings.
Hamilton finished the game 5-for-6 and is now on a 16-game hitting streak and leads the majors with 25 RBIs and 37 hits in June.
The Astros jumped out to a 4-1 lead with two runs in the first and two in the second, but those were the only runs they would score.
Rangers reliever Chris Ray (2-0) earned the victory, while Daigle (0-1) took the loss for the Astros.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Texas |
|
Houston |
|
C.J. Wilson
|
Player |
Felipe Paulino
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
7.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
6 |
Hits |
10 |
|
2.57 |
ERA |
3.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Texas
|
15 |
0 |
19 |
.349 |
28 |
10 |
5 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
| Houston
|
7 |
0 |
10 |
.200 |
8 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
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